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Luna
“Penthouse”
Elektra
Grade: B
Luna always has had the subtle,
smooth sounds of a relaxed band,
one that doesn’t get too excited
about anything. Mellow is its middle
name.
It’s also got a lot of talent. Led
by Dean Wareham (of Galaxic 500),
the band also includes Justin
Harwood (of the Chills).
Still,“Penthouse”doesn’t catch
all that much. The soft tunes still
continue with that lounge rock
sound. It’s almost as if the band
didn’t put its heart into it.
'Songs like “Chinatown” and
“Moon Palace” lack anything a per
son can latch onto. If Luna were
just playing and Wareham weren’t
singing, it’d come off much better.
But there are some great tracks,
especially the hidden “Bonnie and
Clyde,” which is by w“>hc tfesf
song on the compact disc.
Tom Verlaine also plays some
of the guitars on the disc, but lie
doesn’t hold a candle to the guitar
work contributed by the late, great
Sterling Morrison on Luna’s last
record, “Bewitched.”
Overall, “Penthouse” is the
sophomore slump, even though it’s
the band’s third album. Maybe next
time it’ll try a hook or two.
—Cliff Hicks
Craig Chaquico
“Acoustic Planet”
Higher Octave Music
Grade: A+
I can’t believe I just gave an A+
to a New Age record, but I’ll be
damned if this isn’t the best guitar
musie I’ve heard in years.
Craig Chaquico (pronounced
cha-KEY-so) was the lead singer/
songwritcr/guitarist for Jefferson
Starship. In other words, he’s been
in the music business for a long
time. “Acoustic Planet” is his sec
ond instrumental album. It is the
follow-up to “Acoustic Highway,”
and I may have to get that now.
Almost 50 minutes of blissful
music, including plenty of guitars,
both acoustic and electric, com
prises the nine-song album.
The sound is nothing short of
revolutionary, deiininga trademark
tone for Chaquico. It carries as
sound for the night, driving under- -C
neath starlight across vast expanses. 3
One of the songs, “Just One
World,” was launched on a NASA
rocket as part of the Space Ark
program. If an alien life form finds
this recording, it will know what
guitar music should be.
I only can hope that somehow he
composes an “Acoustic Galaxy” to
top it.
—Cliff Hicks
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Toys ignite childhood memories,
attract tractor collectors to show
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
Sunday’s 10th annual “HuskcrToy
and Buckle Show” might have been
more specifically titled the “Thou
sands of John Deere Tractor Toys and
Buckle Show,” because that is almost
entirely what it was.
Scores of green and yellow minia
ture farm machinery filled the state
fairground’s Agriculture Hall, enough
to sow and harvest a liny crop across
UNL’s City Campus. Children got in
free, and it was just as well — there
were at least three or four adults for
every child present.
Nine-year-old Ben Roth stood be
hind a crowd of adults for 5 minutes,
waiting to buy a toy chain saw.
“It’s cool,” Roth said. “I’ll prob
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ably go out and try to cut down fake
trees.”
A space opened up in the mob long
enough for Roth to ask the price of the
toy.
“35 dollars,” the dealer said.
Roth nodded and carefully placed
the toy back on the table before walk
ing away.
The show’s organizer, Pat Bartek,
said the old toys helped collectors
remember their youth.
“This isacollectible, male-oriented
toy show for all ages,” Bartek said.
“Everyone remembers their toys from
carefree days, when they were kids,
when they didn’t have to worry about
so much. These toys are a way to
escape.”
But toy tractors also had a deeper
significance to many of the collectors,
said Janice Samuelson, a toy dealer.
“Tractors are very special to farm
families,” Samuelson said. “They’ll
collect a toy tractor for every tractor
they farmed with.”
Samuelson’s husband, Wayne, said
the toy tractor community continued
to grow, despite setbacks.
“Tractor collecting is still grow
ing, but we lose a collector every few
months, heart attacks or something,”
Wayne Samuelson said. “I’ve lost two
or three good friends this year.
“But there’s always new blood in
terested in tractors.”
Community is the most important
thing to Harold Kavalier, a toy dealer.
“These people arc good people,”
Kavalier said. “They’re honest. I take
checks from people from all over and
never check them.”
1in Fiber’ showcases
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original styles of winter clothes
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
Furniture and wool coals can be
found in a number of art galleries.
They’re usually found in the gallery’s
offices and closets, however, and not
on display.
But these items and several others
serve as the centerpieces of the “Tril
ogy in Fiber” show at UNL’s Textile,
Clothing and Design Gallery on East
Campus.
The displayed fabrics challenge in
exciting and irreverent ways, mixing
glitter and cosmopolitan fashion with
currently popular rural styles.
The exhibit features the work of
three accomplished UNL graduates.
They are: Bonnie Luckcy, Liz Shea
and Margaret Warner. Eaeh artist
manifests a distinctive attitude about
textiles that shapes her individual
work.
From “Reefer Madness” to “Glitz
on the Prairie,” Warner’s sense of
irony and humor is apparent. Her
charming scarves and parkas mix Na
tive American and other ingenious
styles with glitter and posh appeal.
With multicultural pomp and daz
zling hominess, Warner’s visions are
a scream, and must be seen to be
believed.
The centerpiece of Luckey’s pieces
is a gorgeous wool Windbreaker called
“Windows Coat II.” This modern
Joseph’s coat was computer designed
and hand-dyed to display a rainbow of
warm colors in a subtle, elegant way.
Seamed with Ultrasuede, it begs the
observer to try it on.
Shea’s wall hangings have a dis
tinctly exotic feel, combining Middle
Eastern and Celtic influences into
smooth yet spiked and jagged inter
locking lines, like the woven back
bones of a few impossible beasts.
Shea described her work as “or
ganic,” saying her chief inspiration
came from the “the subtleness of na
ture.” The description fits, especially
if the world’s diverse but fluid cul
tures can be counted as part ofnature’s
handiwork.
“A Trilogy in Fiber” is housed on
the second floor of the Home Eco
nomics buildingat 35th and Holdrege
streets, and will be on display through
Feb. 15.
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